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longship

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4. That's the way you get to Harlem.

Reply to rug (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 16, 2015, 08:30 PM

Sep 2015

I saw Duke live in the sixties at a small club in Dearborn, MI. The whole band was there. It was astounding. He also did his sacred concert at a big church in Royal Oak, but I missed that one.

I love him madly.

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Jazz's long road to religious respectability [View all] rug Sep 2015 OP

great jazz has always been a somewhat religious experience for me! NRaleighLiberal Sep 2015 #1

Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts longship Sep 2015 #2

Yes! And he took the A train to get there. rug Sep 2015 #3

That's the way you get to Harlem. longship Sep 2015 #4

Yup, straight up Eightth Avenue. rug Sep 2015 #5

Yup, Louis is the source. nt longship Sep 2015 #6

Religious respectability Cartoonist Sep 2015 #7